Dual Credit English III
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." ~Benjamin Franklin
Because it often takes a week or so for eCampus to add students, we will, temporarily, do most of our work through a Google classroom. Here are the codes:
4A: j80kdc 2B: 5nuojh9 The first assignment is a visual analysis discussion board over two images that address social issues. Here are some resources to help with this assignment:
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We are beginning a research paper. You are going to research a current social issue. For this assignment, you must make sure that you discover the causes, effects, and solutions to a problem. Be very selective on your topic.
Today, we began working on the cause and effect essay that will discuss our pet peeves. Today, we read one blog post from NY Times "Complaint Box" titled "Public Grooming". We spent quite a bit of time discussing how the writer organized her essay and how she supported the argument.
We are working on cause and effect essays. As always, we read examples that utilize this mode of writing: a poem titled "Suicide Note", an essay "Why We Crave Horror Movies", and another essay "Why and When We Speak Spanish". For "Suicide Note" and "Horror Movies", there were analysis questions to answer. For "Why Spanish", you had to complete a reading response.
Today, we worked on a journal entry titled "The ______________ We Carry in Our Minds." Like Scott Russell Sanders discusses how his thinking about women changed when he and his friend Aneke are discussing men's and women's roles, you are to discuss a time when your thinking changed.
Today, we are revising and editing our peers' essays. Here is the link to their Google docs (please, make sure that you select the proper class period):
4A Essay Links 6B Essay Links Click on the link to open their essays. Go to "Editing" Click on "Suggesting" -- This is critical because you do not want to change their essays, you just want to offer suggestions. Then, they can approve of your suggestions or decline them. Follow the directions on the editing sheet. We had the entire period to create a works cited page and to draft the essay. Because the graphic organizers are basically the guts of the essay, the draft is actually fairly easy. You have to do a bit of revision to make the body paragraphs fluent. For each body paragraph, complete these steps: 1) Add a topic sentence. 2) Add some transitions to introduce each new quotation / passage and to move from one passage to the next. 3) Add a concluding sentence In the Compare and Contrast folder, there is a sample paragraph that walks you through this process. Here is the link: "From Template to Essay". Once, you have finished your draft, complete this Google form so that your peers can revise and edit your draft digitally: For 4A use this link: http://tinyurl.com/comparecontrast4a For 6B use this link: http://tinyurl.com/comparecontrast6b Here is what you will need to do to make sure that your essay is editable:
We are going to revise and edit through our Google drives. Make sure that you use the MISD account. The essay draft is due Wednesday, October 19, by midnight. Again it needs to be in your Google docs, and the link must be on the spreadsheet above. Once you all have completed this form, I will put the links to the essays in eCampus and on the Weebly page. You will go the the spreadsheet, click on a link, begin editing part of one peer's essay. Follow the directions in peer editing and revision handout. The handout is in the Compare and Contrast folder. We will edit in class on Thursday and Friday. The edits are due Friday (October 21) by midnight; the final essay is due Tuesday (October 25) by midnight. You will continue working on the graphic organizers for the men essay. Submit the graphic organizer, in the proper format, in eCampus under the "Daily Assignments" tab. It is due Monday, October 17, by midnight.
Once you've completed this, you will compose your rough draft. The rough draft will be submitted in your Google drive because we are going to peer edit digitally. You must complete this form once you've finished your essay. We are beginning another essay. In this essay we will compare and contrast the various qualities that Brent Staples, Scott Russell Sanders, and Dave Barry contribute to men. We had Chromebooks in class today, and used these the outline the essay.
We are continuing to read passages about men. Today, we read "Turkeys in the Kitchen" by Dave Barry. Barry discusses the men he knows and presents stereotypes of helpless men.
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Reading Response: Visual Analysis II Essay: Documentary Film Project: Grading Information
Because Skyward assigns the category names, I want to clarify what each category is in relation to the syllabus. Essays (20%): These are the formal essays that we write each grading period. Projects (20%): These will be the create projects with a written essay component. Journal (15%): These are the the journals that we compose in class and in Blackboard/eCampus. Daily (15%): These will be the discussion board posts and peer responses. Class (10%): These will the class reading and discussion questions. 6 Weeks Test (20%): These may be reading exams from novel or the reading responses that I assign. For reading responses, students must read a passage at home and write a minimum 2- page response. REMIND:
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